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Table Of Contents
- Programming Guide
- Contents
- vRealize Automation Programming Guide
- Overview of the vRealize Automation REST API
- REST API Authentication
- REST API Use Cases
- Create a Tenant
- Syntax for Displaying Your Current Tenants
- Syntax for Requesting a New Tenant
- Syntax for Listing All Tenant Identity Stores
- Syntax for Linking an Identity Store to the Tenant
- Syntax for Searching LDAP or Active Directory for a User
- Syntax for Assigning a User to a Role
- Syntax for Displaying all Roles Assigned to a User
- Request a Machine
- Approve a Machine Request
- List Provisioned Resources
- Manage Provisioned Deployments
- Working with Reservations
- Create a Reservation
- Display a List of Supported Reservation Types
- Displaying a Schema Definition for a Reservation
- Get the Business Group ID for a Reservation
- Get a Compute Resource for the Reservation
- Getting a Resources Schema by Reservation Type
- Creating a Reservation By Type
- Verify a Reservation and Get Reservation Details
- Display a List of Reservations
- Update a Reservation
- Delete a Reservation
- Create a Reservation
- Working with Reservation Policies
- Working with Key Pairs
- Working with Network Profiles
- Get a List of Available IP Ranges for an IPAM Provider
- Import and Export Content
- Syntax for Listing Supported Content Types
- Syntax for Listing Available Content
- Syntax for Filtering Content by Content Type
- Syntax for Creating a Package for Export
- Syntax for Listing Packages in the Content Service
- Syntax for Exporting a Package
- Syntax for Validating a Content Bundle Before Importing
- Syntax for Importing a Package
- Understanding Blueprint Schema
- Manage XaaS Content with Import and Export
- Create a Tenant
- Related Tools and Documentation
- Filtering and Formatting REST API Information
- Index
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"os_distribution": null,
"os_type": "Linux",
"os_version": null,
"platform_name": "vsphere",
"platform_type": "virtual",
"property_groups": [
null
],
"provisioning_workflow": {
"componentId": null,
"classId": "Infrastructure.Compute.ProvisioningWorkflow",
"id": "CloneWorkflow"
},
"reservation_policy": {
"componentId": null,
"classId": "Infrastructure.Reservation.Policy.ComputeResource",
"id": "None"
},
"security_groups": [],
"security_tags": [],
"source_machine": null,
"source_machine_external_snapshot": null,
"source_machine_name": "cbpcentos_63_x86",
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}
}
}
}
Syntax for Requesting a Machine
You can use the REST API catalog service to submit a machine request.
Prepare you Request
Going back to the entitledCatalogItemViews response, locate a link eld that contains a value similar to the
following:
{
"@type":"link",
"href":"https://$host/catalog-
service/api/consumer/entitledCatalogItems/dc808d12-3786-4f7c-b5a1-d5f997c8ad66/requests",
"rel":"POST: Submit Request"
}
Use the information in this response to edit the template construct the URI to request the desired catalog
item using a POST command.
Input
Use the supported input parameters to control the command output.
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